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No, I’m a drummer. I like to play my own grooves. Although I would like to try it sometime.

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Yes I am very happy with all the different kits and sounds that I have.

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I bought EZ2 Modern/ Vintage and EZ3 core Library

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I started with EZ 2 demo and by time the 10 day demo was done EZ 2 was no longer available. So I purchased EZ 3 but I also purchased 2 sounds as well. To be honest I like the sounds of EZ 2 sounds in the Bright Room.

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Thanks for your response. Yeah, I guess thats what i’m gonna have to do. I was just curious if there’s a reason why they are so loud. The EZDrummer 2 snare and cymbals are the same level. It’s just the toms.

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I find when I highlight the drum track with EZ Drummer 3 plug in, it raises the cpu on playback. But if I highlight a guitar or vocal track it lowers the cpu back to normal.

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Thanks John, I figured out the EZDrummer part. I haven’t figured out the DAW side though. Do I have to do this after a region is recorded? Or is there a way to assign the cc to a track on the Daw?

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Drum names only work for Drum kit designer, Drummer and Ultrabeat. A work around for me was in Midi environment create a mapped instrument and drag it into summing folder for your EZDrummer tracks. You will have to set all the names in the mapped instrument (A little time consuming), but you can save the project as a template.

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Shootie wrote:

Check my channel next week, I’ll tell you more than you’ll want to know about it… Hence my post, just checking my research.

Ok Sounds good. Your videos have been a lot of help already.

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Shootie wrote:

Not stack them on the same track, but two different tracks. This is how I’m blending sounds already.

Do you use EZDrummer on both tracks? How do you set up the tracks midi without a Stack? I did similar with EZDrummer Multi out then did Track Stack then created another track with Drum Kit Designer and placed it in the stack. Of coarse I had to set up the track to one midi note, because Drum Kit Designer won’t let you turn off  drums that you are not using like EZ3 does.

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Would it be possible to make 2 stereo EZdrummer Tracks, then track stack them and on the 2nd Track turn every instrument off in EZDrummer except that tom and learn it to the snare? This is in response to OP. Not sure if 2 EZdrummer tracks would be efficient though.

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Bear-Faced Cow wrote:

It’s hard to tell at this stage. There are a number of factors ranging from your other tracks to the genre of the music. Without listening to the song, I wouldn’t be able to tell you where to start. However, if you are losing some “attack“, you might want to start by lowering everything in your mix and turn up the volume on your audio interface a bit (not too much as you don’t want to damage your hearing as well as affect how you mix everything). For the amount of years that I have been mixing audio, I usually don’t concern myself with the levels until it is time to mix, as long as they are within sane levels, which your appears to be. Just be something comes up slightly in the red, it doesn’t mean that your audio is ruined, unlike the old analog days.

jord

Thanks again Bear. I will mess will some of the individual levels in EZdrummer. Sound wise, the drums sound great. Of course in a perfect world, if they were at a -3 db that would be better. But all is well. Thanks again for your input.

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Bear-Faced Cow wrote:

First of all, you are not clipping. Busses in Logic are 64-bit Floating Point audio by default, so the headroom would have to be a level where you be deaf long before any digital clipping could occur. +3.7db on the buss in not clipping.

Secondly, you are using a summing stack. It’s combining all of your audio together, or sums it all into a single bus channel. The peaks and valleys of the individivual tracks will either emphasize certain peaks or cancel them out. It is not simple as being as high as your highest individual peak. This is one of the basic aspects of mixing.

Lastly, you are looking at peak readings and not RMS readings. Logic’s display retains the highest point throughout until you reset it. +3.7 doesn’t mean your entire track is constantly at +3.7.

Don’t worry about your track in this respect until it is time to mix it.

jord

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Thanks Bear. What will I have to do when I start mixing? Should I put a limiter on the summing track? I did try lowering the EZDrummer plugin level to -4, But it took a lot of the attack out of the sound.

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Bear-Faced Cow wrote:

If you cannot bind a MIDI CC or automation parameter to it, then no. Considering that volume would be handled through multi-out, what would be the purpose?

jord

• This post was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

Thanks for replying Bear. Example, If I turn the snare, bass drum or toms all the way down in the mixer, it still has a lot of sound through Overheads, Ambience etc. Like the mixer levels only turn down the Ambience. In Drums window. When I turn level down from the instrument volume it turns them off completely. Thats why I was asking in OP the difference between the 2 volumes. The instrument volume must be Pre overhead, Ambience, FXs and The Mixer levels must be post.

Plus, I do like that I can adjust cymbals individually in drums window.

I’ve only had EZDrummer 3 for a few weeks. I never had EZDrummer before this. This is all new to me.

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Bear-Faced Cow wrote:

That’s what using multi out is for.

jord

I have it set up with multi out, Those sliders are another volume. I’m curious if there’s a way to control volume from DAW for each instrument in image below.

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